Word: learned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have splendid opportunities, through the Harvard professors and students, to learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that...
...form a club: a club with its own officers which can plan its own work and amusements. They need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still foreign. They need to be interested and instructed in our language and customs...
Those of us who live many hundreds of miles from Cambridge are delighted to learn that the federal inspector has issued an edict fixing the rate for meals on a railway dining car at $1.25 a plate. Hence the moderately wealthy Californian will no longer need to embark on a four-days' fast when he comes east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely...
Such an idea is not wholly new. Psychology has been working on means for rating the "capacity to learn" of a man for many years. The nianner in which this science has aided the government in judging and placing its men for the great task of war is a noteworthy recommendation of its progress. But as Professor Langfeld points out, the idea is new enough to be unreliable in its present form. However, it has immense possibilities. If a psychological examination were to be made compulsory at the beginning of each year, the facts thus gained together with the University...
...stars shone with their usual brilliancy last night, but he who had made it his life work to learn the meaning of their varying light was not watching. Rather after spending long years in trying to unfathom the mysteries of the heavens, Professor Edward C. Pickering beheld the skies in their elemental simplicity. Harvard mourns the loss of this great man. The wide recognition which he had obtained indicates the debt the University owes...